Board:   [DoveNet] Hobby Corner
Subject: Re: Retro gaming
From:    Mr Ned
Date:    Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:48

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-=> Nightfox wrote to Mr Ned <=-

 Ni> One thing I think was interesting about cartridge-based consoles was
 Ni> that cartridges allowed game developers to include additional processor
 Ni> chips inside their game cartridges if they wanted.I heard Starfox had
 Ni> a processor chip in its cartridge that was some sort of graphics
 Ni> processor, which helped with the3D graphics in the game.  I think I
 Ni> heard F-Zero used it too.

Yeah there was loads of that going on with the SNES, especially in the
later years of the scene where Nintendo was a little behind Sony and
Sega in having a next generation console available for purchase. Yoshi's
Island is a good example. It didn't happen so much with the Genesis but
Sega was pushing its 32X addon which didn't work out for them.

MN

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